In this paper, we approach the problem of organisation and control in automatic speech understanding systems firstly, by presenting a theory of the non-serial interactions necessary between two processors in the system; namely, the morphosyntactic and the prosodic, and secondly, by showing how, when generalised, this theory allows one to specify a highly efficient architecture for a speech understanding system with a simple control structure and genuinely independent components. The theory of non-serial interactions we present predicts that speech is temporally organised in a very specific way; that is, the system would not function effectively if the temporal distribution of various types of information in speech were different. The architecture we propose is developed from a study of the task of speech understanding and, furthermore, is specific to this task. Consequently, the paper argues that general problem solving methods are unnecessary for speech understanding.
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Briscoe, E. J., & Boguraev, B. K. (1984). Control structures and theories of interaction in speech understanding systems. In 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 1984 and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 1984 (pp. 259–266). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/980491.980547
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